by Leiermann | May 17, 2022 | Literature, Literature
Where they burn books … by Andrea Strobl “Where they burn books, they end up burning people.” As is well known, this sentence comes from Heinrich Heine and is used today above all in connection with the Third Reich – understandable, since...
by Leiermann | Jul 14, 2021 | Literature
A story of reading by Andrea Strobl What could be more fitting for a cultural platform like the “Leiermann” than to think about reading? No matter whether we want to deal with history, art history, archaeology, architecture, philosophy, literature or even...
by Leiermann | Sep 3, 2020 | Biographies, Biographies Literature, Literature
Michael Ende von Stefan Havlik The freedom of fantasy – on the 25th anniversary of Michael Ende’s death On September 1, 1995, the “Reigen seliger Geister” (“Circle of Blessed Spirits”) resounds in Munich’s Waldfriedhof:...
by Leiermann | Aug 16, 2020 | Literature
Charles Bukowski by Stefan Havlik America, at the bottom – for the 100th birthday of Charles Bukowski Paris, 1978: A 58-year-old American author, scarred by life, is the guest of the renowned literary programme “Apostrophes” on French...
by Leiermann | May 8, 2020 | Literature, Reviews
The White Tiger Is it really true that we pity the poor? Doesn’t the prevailing worldview suggest that we should consider them morally objectionable? Self-inflicted with a stigma and responsible for their misery? Today we no longer notice how much our thinking...